Scorpis

Short description: Genus of fishes

Scorpis

Matūnė (S. violacea)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Perciformes
Family:  | Kyphosidae
Subfamily:  | Scorpidinae
Genus:  | Scorpis
Valenciennes, 1832
Type species
Scorpis georgianus

Valenciennes, 1832[1]

Synonyms[2]

* Agenor Castelnau, 1879
* Juvenella Whitley, 1948
* Neptotichthys F. W. Hutton, 1890

Scorpis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the subfamily Scorpidinae of the sea chub family Kyphosidae which are native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.[3]

## Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

* Scorpis aequipinnis J. Richardson, 1848 (sea sweep)
* Scorpis chilensis Guichenot, 1848
* Scorpis georgiana Valenciennes, 1832 (banded sweep)
* Scorpis lineolata Kner, 1865 (silver sweep)
* Scorpis violacea (F. W. Hutton, 1873) (blue maomao)

## References

1. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Scorpis". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=9109.
2. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Scorpididae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Scorpididae.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Scorpis in FishBase. August 2013 version.

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